Researchers at the University of California, Davis found that heavy alcohol use was most common among firearm owners who also engaged in behaviors such as carrying a firearm for protection against other people, and keeping a firearm at home that was both loaded and not locked away. The study included the results of a telephone survey of more than 15,000 people in eight states.

But don’t be afraid of those beer guzzling, gun toting “Tea Party Activist”. But be afraid of activist in scientific clothing using science by political agenda and passing it off as sound science. We have seen this continually throughout the Progressive era where wish to control the people and use what they call “legitimate science” as justification. The most egregious of this was obviously the so called “science of eugenics”